Security leaders say the next two years are going to be ‘insane’

Industry leaders at the RSA Conference warned that generative AI and autonomous agents are accelerating vulnerability discovery and exploit development to a pace that may outstrip defenders, potentially enabling automated, large-scale network compromises within months to a few years. They argue this creates a near-term offensive advantage, necessitates rethinking foundational software safety and defensive architectures, and demands machine-speed autonomous response and defense-in-depth rather than relying solely on traditional patch cycles and human-managed incident response.